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Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - Child prostitution was a
problem, and the government targeted the practice as a law enforcement and
prevention priority. There were reports that some schoolgirls, independent of
third party involvement, engaged in prostitution for spending money. TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS – There were reports that
children were trafficked within the country for child prostitution. There
were reports that some schoolgirls worked in conjunction with prostitution rings
or family members. The government continued a five-year action plan to combat
child prostitution, and the Ministry of Women, Child Development, and Family
Welfare ran a hotline for reporting cases of child prostitution. Government
officials and agencies in the Ministry of Women's Rights, in the Attorney
General's office, and in the police department sought ways to prevent and
prosecute child prostitution. NGOs and the government drop-in center provided
shelters, counseling, and education for victims of child prostitution. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 1996 [18] The Committee is concerned by
the reported increase in child abuse, including infanticide, domestic
violence and child prostitution and the lack of adequate measures for the
psycho-social recovery of child victims of such abuse. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights [245] The Committee recommends an
in-depth study and analysis of the situation of child abuse, child
prostitution, domestic violence against women, teenage pregnancy, abortion,
suicide, and alcohol and drug abuse, and of how the State party can best
protect and ensure the economic, social and cultural rights of the population
of Mauritius affected by those problems. In this regard, the State party
should, inter alia, initiate efforts to gather statistics and other
information relevant to the situation. ECPAT:
Fifth Report on implementation of the Agenda for Action [DOC] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Protection Project Country Report [DOC] FORMS OF
TRAFFICKING -
Prostitution is rampant in ECPAT: What Makes Children
Vulnerable to Sexual Exploitation? DISCRIMINATION
/ ETHNICITY - In a study
conducted in 2000 by the Ministry of Women, Family Welfare and Child
Development in ARTICLE 3 CLAUSE (b) - A second study in 2001, commissioned by UNICEF and the Ministry of Women’s Rights, Child Development and Family Welfare, which revealed that there are more than 2,600 children and 3,900 adults involved in prostitution. Based on the findings and recommendations of the report of the second study, a two-year National Plan of Action has been prepared by the Government focusing on the four recommendations made at the first world conference on CSEC held in Stockholm in 1996, namely: (i) coordination and cooperation; (ii) prevention; (iii) protection; and (iv) reintegration. List of Issues in Connection with the Second Periodic Report [DOC] Other legal developments that are
not mentioned in the Government’s report are: SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND SEXUAL ABUSE - Sexual exploitation of Children
is covered mostly by the provisions of the Child Protection Act and the
Criminal Act. A study on Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) in
Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the Program of Action - 2003 - It is estimated
that there are more than 2,600 children and 3,900 adults involved in prostitution. (They
come from both rural and urban areas and form the main ethnic groups in - The underlying
causes of CSEC are broken families, sexual abuse within and outside the
family, early school dropouts, substance abuse and the negative influence of
the family environment and peers; - Monthly income of
the majority of the families of young victims of CSEC is less than Rs 5,000; - 13.5 per cent of
the children covered in the study had become child mothers, over one third of
them had had an abortion and 62.5 per cent of the children had a family
member or close relation working as a sex worker, in particular, their own
mother; - 96 per cent of
young prostitutes engage in sexual relations at a very early age of their
life and many of them have had sex for the first time with their boyfriends.
More than 57 per cent of the children had their first sexual experience in
return for a gift or money; -CSEC takes place at nightclubs, hotels,
brothels, apartments/bungalows, residence of pimps or
pensions. Taxi drivers and hotel employees are involved in the
prostitution network and act as procurers for tourists. Mobile
phones are the means of communication for making arrangements from where
vulnerable children are spotted and recruited. It also appears
that the tentacles of the network extend to schools; - The money paid to
victims varies from Rs 400 per hour or Rs 3,000 per day and Rs 700 to Rs
4,000 per night; - The majority of
clients are local people, although young prostitutes do have foreign tourists
as clients (19.8 per cent) and 20.5 per cent of the children work under
leaders, 51 per cent of whom are men; - The majority of
children involved in prostitution have been to school, but more than 57 per cent
of them dropped out of school at grade 6. This deprived them of
opportunities of employment and restricted their options in life; -There is a correlation between drug abuse
and prostitution. Over 25 per cent of the children had taken drugs
at some time or other and 12.5 per cent were in the habit of taking drugs; - Symptoms of
reproductive tract infection are quite common among child
victims. Certain vital facts about AIDS are unknown to children
and a sizeable section of them do not even know that AIDS is incurable. Consideration
of Reports submitted by States Parties [DOC] Article 6: Exploitation of Women [2] Following the findings of the CSEC report a High Level Steering Committee has been set up. It is monitoring the implementation of a National Plan of Action (NPA) on the Protection of Children against Sexual Abuse including Sexual exploitation of Children in Mauritius, in order to eliminate CSEC and to protect CSEC victims and ensure their recovery and integration in society. The NPA covers a 2-year period, starting February 2003, and its objective is to ensure the protection of children from any form of abuse as well as the creation of a conducive environment within the family and the civil society. Consequently, the NPA is based on the four components of the Agenda of Action Against CSEC adopted at Stockholm that is, a) Coordination and cooperation; b) Prevention: c) Protection; and d) Recovery and re-integration. All material used herein
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